Welcome to another PowerApps community call. These calls we share the latest news about PowerApps, demonstrate tips and tools to help you build awesome PowerApps. You will meet the PowerApps product team and community experts to get your questions answered. In this month’s call we will discuss and demonstrate how to use Azure Blob Storage … Continue reading “5/15 Webinar: Best Practices for using Azure Blob Storage with PowerApps by Shane Young and Todd Baginski”

We are very pleased to announce our latest standards whitepaper – PowerApps canvas app accessibility guidelines! Why did we write this white paper? PowerApps embodies the idea of “democratization of development”—anyone in your organization can quickly and easily create a powerful app and share it broadly. But the app maker has an ethical, and sometimes legal, obligation to support “democratization of usage” … Continue reading “PowerApps Canvas App Accessibility Guidelines”

There is an icon in almost every app or website. A plus icon, a search icon, there’s even refresh icons on your browser you’re reading this blog in right now. The icon control in PowerApps allows you to include these graphical symbols for which you can configure properties such as their color, or their OnSelect property … Continue reading “Effortlessly find and switch between icons in canvas apps”

Makers can now create and edit Autonumber fields in the entity field designer UI. Previously this functionality was only exposed through the API, but we have now brought it to the UI for easier use. Autonumber fields are used to automatically generate unique alphanumeric identifiers for records. Makers can customize the format of these identifiers … Continue reading “Autonumber fields are now supported by the modern entity designer”

Dependent drop downs, also known as “cascading drop downs” is the scenario where making one selection on a drop down filters the options available for selection on a following drop down. This is a common scenario across business forms in order to optimize the form filling out experience for the user. For example, filtering cities that … Continue reading “Configure easy dependent drop downs in PowerApps”

Today we are happy to announce the release of the PowerApps canvas app coding standards and guidelines white paper! Why did we create the white paper? Creating a simple canvas PowerApp is easy. But as the complexity of your app increases, care must be taken to keep your apps maintainable and performant. Across the web …

Over the next two months, we’re continuing to roll out a series of deep-dive videos on the Official PowerApps YouTube channel. These videos teach a wide variety of app building concepts and provide examples from our PowerApps Office templates so you can get hands on.